Hybrid/Remote SSH Contract Job Trends

Secure Shell (SSH)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SSH skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 304 360
Rank change year-on-year +10 +56 +161
Contract jobs citing SSH 23 13 21
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.22% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.14% 1.03% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £275 £401 £381
25th Percentile £313 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +2.63% -12.04%
75th Percentile - £619 £575
90th Percentile £402 £662 £624
UK median daily rate £438 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -5.41% +2.78% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

SSH falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,077 1,257 2,205
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.76% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 757 1,425
10th Percentile £309 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £696 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 28 78
10th Percentile £20.80 £17.32 £19.09
25th Percentile £34.50 £37.50 £20.58
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.75 £47.20
Median % change year-on-year +48.56% -7.30% -25.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.77 £69.38
90th Percentile £70.03 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.00% -31.82% +32.53%

SSH
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSH and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SSH job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SSH
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSH

SSH
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSH over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

SSH daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSH.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SSH

SSH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) Confluence
2 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (4.35%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
1 3 (13.04%) GCP
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (4.35%) AWS KMS
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) Route 53
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) HTTP
2 2 (8.70%) SMTP
2 2 (8.70%) SSL
2 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.35%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) FTP
3 1 (4.35%) IMAP
3 1 (4.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Parquet
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.35%) Impala
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.70%) MLflow
4 2 (8.70%) Poetry
4 2 (8.70%) PyCharm
4 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.35%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
1 11 (47.83%) Java Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Kafka Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) Node.js
2 6 (26.09%) Kafka
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Avro
3 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.70%) Flask
3 2 (8.70%) NumPy
3 2 (8.70%) Pandas
4 1 (4.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Tandem
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Market Risk
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Windows
3 4 (17.39%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.35%) VMS
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (56.52%) Task Automation
3 11 (47.83%) Agile
3 11 (47.83%) SDLC
4 7 (30.43%) Cryptography
5 6 (26.09%) Information Security
5 6 (26.09%) ITIL
5 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (21.74%) DevOps
6 5 (21.74%) Key Management
7 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
7 4 (17.39%) Incident Response
8 3 (13.04%) Change Management
8 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
8 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
8 3 (13.04%) Release Management
9 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (8.70%) Project Management
9 2 (8.70%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Java
2 11 (47.83%) JavaScript
2 11 (47.83%) Shell Script
2 11 (47.83%) TypeScript
3 10 (43.48%) Python
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
5 3 (13.04%) Bash
5 3 (13.04%) Groovy
6 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
3 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (4.35%) DFS Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Dovecot
2 1 (4.35%) HDFS
2 1 (4.35%) Postfix
2 1 (4.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Argo
2 2 (8.70%) Istio
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Kibana
3 1 (4.35%) Nessus
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Gemalto
1 5 (21.74%) Thales
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) Cloudera
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow